A/N: Okay, I am finally back with the new chapter. As a recap Harry was helping Ron practice asking Hermione out, when *gasp* someone appeared behind the couch… but we don't know who it was! So the wait is over, and we can finally discover who that person was! But first, a couple reminders… I have a poll going on in my profile that would greatly affect the outcome on this story, and I would like to see what you, the reader, think. Also, back in chapter 3, I mentioned a teddy bear that Ron gave to Hermione. If you would like to know the story behind that, I have written one and you can read it on my profile!

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"Wow, Harry!" Ginny exclaimed as she walked around to stand in front of her boyfriend and brother, "I didn't realize that you were cheating on me, and with my brother no less!"

Both boys just sat there dumbfounded, with their mouth bobbing up and down like a fish. Harry quickly retracted his arms from around Ron and swiftly threw the blanket that was lying on top of his head to the ground. Ron just raised his hands up in the air and looked between the two of them gradually becoming more and more red in the face.

The other students that typically loitered in the common room at this time quickly focused their entire attention to the scene unfolding before them. Stifled giggles could be heard throughout the room, but a strange silence had also settled.

The atmosphere was quickly lifted when Ginny busted out in loud laughter, "Oh! Your faces! This is just too good; I wish I had a camera to show mum how… how dumb you look!" Ginny clutched at her sides as the stifled giggles quickly turned into full-out laughter. Soon the entire common room was laughing at Harry and Ron's expense. After getting over the shock of the sheer ridiculousness of the situation, Ron and Harry soon joined in the merriment as well.

The chuckling trio moved to sit onto the couch that Harry had previously left. Ginny threw her bag to the side and lifted her feet into her boyfriend's lap. "Now I am not going to beat around the bush," Ginny began before letting a giggle escape, "but what the hell were you two doing?"

Ron blushed even further and shared a look with his best mate, silently pleading him to explain. "Well," began Harry, "you and I both know how obvious it is that Ron fancies Hermione,"

"And how Hermione fancies Ron too," Ginny interrupted pointedly. Ron gave his sister a look of disbelief at her statement. "Oh, don't give me that look, Ron!" Ginny snapped.

Harry quickly realized that the talk could turn into a full out brother-sister quarrel, and therefore interjected before things could get nasty, "Let's get back to the story." He shot them both a glare, before clearing his throat and continuing. "Now that Ron has finally admitted his feelings for Hermione, the boys and I have convinced Ron to ask Hermione out on the next Hogsmeade trip." Harry paused and looked towards Ron for confirmation that the story was accurate thus far, Ron gave a short nod and Harry continued on.

"Ron here then missed a golden opportunity to do so when he was walking Hermione to her Ancient Runes class. So when he came back here and I told him so, we decided that he ought to practice so he didn't end up yelling at her like he did at Fleur before the Yule Ball."

Ginny nodded her head at that statement, while Ron looked guiltily at the floor. Ginny reached for the blanket that Harry had thrown down to the ground and haste and held it up, "And this was on you head because…" Ginny trailed off while smirking in Harry's direction.

"Well, I had to play the part of Hermione, you see. And, well, she has longer hair than me so I thought that a blanket would, you know, give that impression." Harry's cheeks had pinkened gradually throughout his attempt at an explanation and Ginny giggled while she placed the blanket on top of her boyfriend's head.

"Ah, yes very convincing, you could be her twin!" The trio shared a good laugh before Ron turned to his sister.

"Wait, Gin, why are you back from class so early?" He turned to his sister in confusion, while Harry turned to his girlfriend with the same look adorning his face.

"Oh, well in my potions class the Slytherins were acting like real idiots, throwing around ingredients about the room to each other whenever Slughorn's back was turned." Both Ron and Harry nodded their heads in understanding as Ginny continued with her story, "But this one ingredient, bits of a sea urchin I think, got caught in one of their eyes. Their entire face swelled up to the size of a quaffle, so we all got let out early so Slughorn could take him to the hospital wing."

Harry glanced at his watch before turning back to his girlfriend, "You didn't get out all that early though, there is only ten minutes left before we go to the next class."

Ginny nodded in agreement, "Yes, but it's always nice getting out a little bit early."

Harry turned back to look at the table and noticed that he had not gotten any homework done; instead he had spent his entire free period coaching Ron. "Blimey, we got nothing done, did we Ron?"

Harry then turned to his best friend to see his reaction. Instead of seeing his friend agreeing with him, Ron was rocking back and forth rubbing his sweating palms up and down his pant leg. His usual red face had now drained of all color, and his eyes were bugging out.

"Merlin!" Ginny proclaimed, "You look like a mess, Ron! You need to calm down; Hermione is not going to agree to go out with a sick-looking person."

"I can't do it!" Ron mumbled. Harry and Ginny shared a pointed look before Ginny turned back to her brother rolling her eyes. "I can't do it!" Ron repeated again.

"Yes, you can, Ron." Ginny took her legs off her boyfriend's lap and moved over to stand in front of her brother. She grabbed him by the shoulders and forced him to look into her eyes. "And you will do it! You both have waited way too long, and the time is now. You will get up, calm down, march to her classroom, and ask her out." Ginny said firmly, her gaze never wavering.

"Yeah, that's easy to say! But I will get there in front of her and just freeze up, I know it!" Ron began rocking back and forth again, and Harry took this as a cue to get up and help his girlfriend's attempt at a pep talk.

"How about this," Harry began, and Ginny looked at him warily to see where he was going with this, "me and Gin will follow, and be with you for moral support."

"No," Ron quickly exclaimed, "I want it to be just me and Hermione there, I don't want you two there to be in our moment!"

"Well then get up and go to her then." Ginny threw her hands up in exasperation.

"Okay," Ron stated as he stood up, "okay," he said again to himself. He started to shake himself trying to banish all the nerves away. "Okay." Ron said again before he moved towards the portrait hole.

Right after Ron finally went through the portrait hole, Ginny turned towards Harry. She quickly stood up and pulled on Harry's hand forcing him to stand as well. "Come on, Harry, I want to watch history in the making!"

"Just a second, Gin," Harry said as he pulled on her hand, she was already moving towards the portrait hole to follow her brother, "I need to tell you about this plan I had."

"Plan, what plan?" Ginny finally stopped trying to pull her boyfriend toward the exit, and stood still looking him in the eyes.

"Well, you see I had this idea to show Ron how much he and Hermione, you know, really belong together." Harry gave a half shrug, and looked imploringly into his girlfriend's eyes to see what she thought.

"Oh, hmm… tell me more." Ginny begged her boyfriend, "but make it quick, I still want to see this!" Harry gave a small chuckle, and then began telling her his scheme.

::::::::: Back to Ron :::::::::

Ron gave himself a pep talk the entire way to Hermione's classroom. It was filled with "You can do it" and "Be a Gryffindor, Ron!" But after each classroom that he passed, and after each corridor he walked, he became more and more nervous. His palms were continuously sweating, so he was constantly rubbing his palms against his pants.

His constant flow of mutterings to himself was earning him some rather odd looks from the few students that got out of class early and were wandering the hallways. Usually, he would respond with a glare of his own, but now he was too distracted to even understand what those looks meant.

Even the portraits along the walls were looking at him with disgust, and quite a few offered to show him the way to the Hospital Wing, "Where they might be able to mend that messed up head of yours!" But just like the students, Ron paid them no heed and continued his journey towards Ancient Runes.

He finally arrived to the corridor filled with what Ron felt were the creepiest things in the entire castle. Sarcophaguses lined the walls, and ancient tablets were hanging along side of them. Ancient relics stood on podiums, and an eerie golden glow seemed to permanently reside in the hallway. The classroom itself was often referred to as the Room of Runes, which Ron felt was a bit of a mouthful.

Ron quickly took a glance at the watch that his mother had given him for his birthday and noticed that he was right on time, a rare occurrence. He looked up to see Hermione leave the classroom adjusting her bag on her shoulder while talking to Terry Boot, a Ravenclaw who was also in Ron's Potions class. She laughed at something he said as he passed her her book, Advanced Rune Translation, in return Hermione offered him a small smile of thanks.

At first Ron was depressed at the thought of another guy making a move on Hermione. He feared that what his friends had said earlier, that other guys may ask her to Hogsmeade, was now true. But another irrational part of his brain took over, and soon he was fuming with anger and jealousy.

He quickly approached the pair while forcing a calm smile onto his face. Because, despite his anger, he knew Hermione would be outraged if he started a fight right in front of her; which would undoubtedly rule out any possibility of her accepting his offer to take her to Hogsmeade.

"Hey, Hermione," Ron began interrupting whatever conversation they were having, both Hermione and Terry turned to Ron at his disruption, "Terry," Ron said shortly.

"Hey, Ron, I thought we agreed to meet back up at the common room." Hermione stated with a confused look quickly forming over her face.

"I know, I just wanted to see you before hand is all, I have to ask you something." Ron flashed Hermione his best lop-sided smile as he made a move to collect her bag from her shoulder. Hermione shot him another suspicious look as she allowed him to remove the bag. Ron then hitched her bag on his shoulder as he turned to Terry, but not before wrapping a protective arm around Hermione's waist. Hermione shot him a look of surprise, but Ron's eyes would not budge from Terry.

"How are you, Terry? I didn't know you were in this class." Ron stated. Terry shot Hermione a look of confusion, his eyes hesitating for a second on the arm encircling Hermione.

"Yeah, have been since third year." Terry let out a light chuckle, but Ron did not see what was funny, "You can't keep us Ravenclaws away from these sorts of classes, especially from an interesting class such as Runes." He shot Hermione a smile, and she offered him a shy one in return. "Besides," he began again, "when you have such a clever witch for a partner all these years, it's hard to give up the class."

Another gleaming smile was sent in Hermione's direction, and Ron was finding it hard to not lose control and punch the perfect smile straight off his face. Instead of following those instincts, Ron took a calming breath before he faced his fellow classmate that he never before had seen as a threat.

Ron stole a quick glance in Hermione's direction and noticed that she was blushing at the compliment. Ron gave Hermione's side a quick squeeze as he turned back to Terry, "Yes, well, I have been lucky enough to have 'such a clever witch' as a best friend all these years, and I find it hard to give her up for this one class." Ron declared with a smirk adorning his freckled face.

Terry offered a short laugh in response, but looked around fishing for something to say in response. Hermione also found herself speechless at Ron's declaration, and gripped her book harder in her hands and let out a small cough to break the silence that had recently dawned on the trio. Ron, on the other hand, was looking at Terry with a smug expression on his face, as if he had just won something.

"Well, I best be going," Terry finally decided on saying, "I promised to meet some of my friends in the library for some last minute studying for Transfiguration." Ron gave him a curt nod in response as Terry turned away from the two. However, Terry stopped after a couple steps and turned back around, "Talk to you later, Hermione." He threw Ron a smirk that was frighteningly similar to the one that Ron had worn moments ago.

Hermione gave him a wave before turning back to her best friend. Ron finally removed his hand from around her waist, and she suddenly felt a sense of emptiness at his action. Nevertheless, she placed her hands on her hips, quirked an eyebrow, and simply stated, "What was that about?"

"What do you mean, 'what was that about,' I was just having a polite conversation with him." Ron answered indigently.

"Polite conversation? Ron, you were glaring at him the entire time, what did he ever do to you?" Hermione angrily asked.

Ron gave her a sigh in response; this is not how he envisioned this conversation to go. Instead of arguing with her as he usually would have done, he grudgingly answered, "I dunno, I just suddenly became jealous I guess." Ron raised his hand to his hair, a typical move when he was nervous.

"Ron, you can't just act like that around every guy who wants to talk to me." Hermione sighed also giving up on a fight, "I am not your girlfriend."

"I know, I know, I'm sorry." Ron apologized after a brief silence, but then quickly stated, "But none of these guys here are good enough for you!"

"Oh, is that what you think!" Hermione suddenly went back into fight mode.

"I do!" Ron exclaimed right back at her.

"Then who, may I ask, would qualify as a 'good enough guy' for me?" Hermione practically shrieked, drawing some stares from the people around.

"Well now that you mention it," Ron gulped, and Hermione looked at him in surprise that he was actually going to answer the question, "that was what I was going to ask you about."

A/N: Bit of a cliffhanger, eh? I suppose I should feel guilty for cutting you off so quickly, and probably for not revealing what Harry's plan is… but what's the fun in that! Leave me a REVIEW to show me how interested you are in finding out more! Also, quick reminder, check out the poll on my profile, it greatly affects the outcome of this story!

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Twinley

P.S. I apologize for not updating last month, and after my promise, but my New Year's Resolution is to follow that; I have already started another one-shot!